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| 2009-11-17 21:52 |
| Character Information; |
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BASICS;
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name; Sarah Mayspring
age; 21
gender; Female
power; Empathy
affliction; Disassociation Disorder, Schizophrenia, Paranoia
PERSONALITY;
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Sarah's personality is rather difficult to pin down, what with it being so fluid. She's always been a bit 'odd' and rather different. She has a sense of when people are being deceitful, and she's always been sensitive to a persons emotions. Sarah had a way of knowing things without knowing them exactly, even before her powers manifested.
Typically, she was a loner, although not completely by choice. She grew to enjoy her own company and it was how her tendency towards imaginary tea parties and talking to 'friends' that weren't there.
Sarah was an avid reader, through this her imagination grew and she tended to slip into a fantasy world; with dragons and ghosts and evil sorceress'. The difference with Sarah's fantasies were that they tended more towards the dark and evil than fairy tale.
By the time she lost her mind and changed her name, Sarah was prone to mood swings of extreme measures. Her moods could go from calm and playful to violent and dark in a matter of seconds. While she rarely raised her voice, the soft, lulling rhymes she played off with her smooth, musical voice tended towards creepy and disturbing for many people.
BACKGROUND;
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When Sarah was nine, she told her father that her mother was lying to him. Sarah had 'felt' the unease seeping from her mother whenever she was around her husband, and Sarah didn't understand it. Shortly afterwards, James and Mary Mayspring were divorced, Mary's affair with her business partner coming to light.
Sarah remained with her mother, growing odder and odder over the years. She didn't leave her room much, she held tea parties and talked to herself, she didn't like being around people simply because they made her feel strange. Sarah was taken to a doctor and admitted to a psychiatric ward for observation. She was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to the state asylum as per the request of her mother.
While showing no outward signs of any other disorders, Sarah settled into the asylum like it was home. Her charm and easy nature endeared her to the staff for the first three years of her stay. She read books quietly in her room, she played on the piano in the lounge and she kept mostly to herself.
It wasn't until shortly after she turned seventeen that things took a drastic turn. Sarah began to display breaks in her personality, became aggressive and argumentative, she argued with herself a lot, getting more and more worked up, speaking in riddles and rhymes. She grew paranoid and started to disconnect herself from reality for long periods of time.
This, in fact, was the onset of her mutation. She was a strong empath, and while surrounded by clinically insane and mentally disturbed people, Sarah started to display traits as such herself as she absorbed everything around her. When she turned nineteen, she stopped answering to the name Sarah and called herself Ophelia; her favourite book was always Hamlet, while Shakespeare was her favourite writer.
Shortly after this, Charles Xavier arrived at the asylum and explained the situation to a former colleague. Ophelia was released into Xavier's care with the hopes that he could restabilise her mind. Ophelia proved to adapt well enough to the change in surroundings at the Xavier mansion. Although she has a tendency not to release the emotions she gathers, something Charles is attempting to work through with her, she still displays some troubling and disturbing traits from time to time.
While she accepts Xavier's help, she doesn't fully trust him and sometimes becomes embittered towards him due to his methods of gaining control over her at times.
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